Ax-blank



(No-Model.)

H. HAMMOND.

AX BLANK.

No. 316,618. Patented Apr.'28, 1885.

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UNITED STATES IATENT OEEICE.

HENRY HAMMOND, OF NEV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 316,618, datedApril 28,1885.

Application filed March 14, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it 71mg concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY HAMMOND, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and Stateof Connecticut, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in theManufacture of Axes, of which the following description and claimconstitute the specification, and which is illustrated by theaccompanying sheet of drawings.

My improvement relates to the art or process of making axes; and itconsists of a new and peculiar ax-poll blank produced by my new andpeculiar process of making ax-polls at the end of one of the earlierstages of that process.

Figure l of the drawings is aside view, and Fig. 2 is an edge View, ofthe ax-poll blank claimed in this specification. Figs. 3 and 4 are sideand edge views, respectively, of that blank aft-er the eye is partly cutand the sides partly forced out by cutters entering from the oppositeedges of the blank. Figs. 5 and 6 are side and edge views, respectively,of the article shown in Figs. 3 and 4, after a punch or former has beenforced entirely through the same, thus giving the final form to theinterior of the eye and pressing out the metal to entirely ll theconcavities c c and give the exterior of the ax-poll its finished form.

The ax-poll blank shown in Figs. l and 2 is manufactured by forging inany suitable manner; but I prefer to manufacture it by dies worked bymachinery. It consists of a single-piece of metal having the commonshape of an ax-poll, except at its sides opposite to where the eye is tobe located, and having at those sides the concavities c c, about equalin aggregate size to the eye to be made in making the ax-poll blank intoan ax-poll.

I do not herein claim the process of making my new and peculiar aX-pollblank, nor the process of making it into an ax-poll, because both thoseprocesses are included in my new and peculiar process of makingax-polls,which process is described and claimed in an application ofmine for Letters Patent of the United States for improvements in themanufacture of axes, filed March 3l, 1882, and of which application thisone constitutes a division, made at the requirement of the Patent Ofce.

I claim as my inventiony A blank for an ax-poll, hatchet, or otheranalogous article, formed with concavities c c, the aggregate bulk ofwhich concavities substantially corresponds with the bulk of the eye tobe formed, which ax-poll is adapted to receive its ultimate externalcontour at the eye portion by the action of a perforating punch, (orpunches) which splits the blank centrally between the two concavities,and spreads the metal laterally, 'in substantially the mannerset forth.

HENRY HAMMOND.

NVitnesses:

ALBERT H. WALKER, WILLARD EDDY.

